Tag: PowerShell

PowerShell is about making things easy and consumable. Same goes for PowervRNI, making repetitive tasks in vRealize Network Insight easier and make it possible to extract information from vRNI. It’s not that easy to load a custom module into PowerShell though, you have to download…

This is the second post in a series on how to use PowervRNI to manage Applications within your vRealize Network Insight environment. If you’d like to learn about managing Data Sources with PowervRNI, check here. Applications Introduced in vRealize Network Insight 3.2 in the begin…

This is the first post in a series on how to use PowervRNI to manage your vRealize Network Insight environment. Starting with Data Sources. Data Sources Brief background; data sources in vRNI are endpoints from which vRNI retrieves information from. Examples are: vCenter, NSX, Switches,…

Roughly a half year ago we came across a situation in which an VMware NSX environment was having problems consistingly applying routing and firewall rules. After some troubleshooting it appeared to be a problem with duplicate VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Enpoint) addresses on the vSphere hosts….

I’ve been rolling out quite a few vRealize Network Insight deployments (labs, Proof-of-Concepts) and while the installation of Network Insight is a cake walk (see automated installer here), add the data sources can be time consuming if you have a bunch of switches and/or other…

Just before all the buzz started from VMworld (such as the vSphere 6.5 release), the VMware fling team dropped a huge release. The first version of PowerCLI for OS X and Linux is available! PowerCLI – Current State While this is a fling, a lot…

A few years ago, I created the first version of the Cisco UCS Inventory Script (UIS), a PowerShell script to read all the configuration and environment data from a UCS Manager. It can help you to get an easy overview of UCS installations after completing…

Veeam Backup & Replication has a pretty extensive PowerShell extension, added to the Veeam Backup & Replication Management server by default. You can do a lot of cool stuff with it, ranging from just getting information about backup jobs to configuring new backup jobs and…

PowerShell was release on November 14, 2006 and is now (or should be?) one of the major components in an admins life. If you’re just getting started on Windows or are new to the whole scripting and automation scene, this one is especially for you. I…

Today I got another question about several Windows VMs breaking down and generating lots of errors after a SAN switch failed. The active paths switched through a path failover. I have seen this behavior before with several customers who use SAN storage and Windows for…

A client was asking me if it was possible to install the VMware tools inside VM’s without having to reboot them right after. I knew it was possible and went looking for a way on doing so. During the search I found several scripts made…

Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf did a great presentation on PowerCLI. PowerCLI is based on PowerShell. PowerShell is designed by Microsoft with the SysAdmin in mind. It’s the universal language for Windows data centers. Most of the time GUI interfaces are single purpose and rigid….

This morning we had a meeting with Vizioncore/Quest. Danny Claproth and Jan-Willem Koppers informed us on their complete range of vProducts. Vizioncore offers a wide range of products which add additional features or deliver VMware-like features. I’ve not had very much time to test their…

At the booth of Vizioncore Scott Herold gave a presentation and demonstration about the Virtualization EcoShell Initiative (VESI). The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative (VESI) is a new Vizioncore-sponsored community initiative being led by virtualization expert and author Scott Herold. The goal of The VESI community is…

VMware recently introduced the new and improved VI Toolkit, version 1.5 VI Toolkit (for Windows) is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell. It provides more than 150 cmdlets for managing and automating your VMware Infrastructure. You can download now this new version…